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There’s music at NOCATZ’s Pony Party!! And he’s giving away free money, too! PLUS, THERE’S PUPPIES EVERYWHERE — ADORABLE, CUDDLY WUDDLY LITTLE DOGGERS, FREE TO THE FIRST 100 VISITORS! QUICK, THEY’RE GOING FAST!!!    

Greetings from Ground Zero for all things silly and superficial (aka, Hollywood), and welcome to the Pony Party Totally Augmented Edition, brought to you by the “30 Minute!! Breast Enlargement” (Great Financing Available!), which I am so not making up.  (Note to doctor: thanks for the bulk mail postcard offering your services, but I’m gonna pass. Small quibble: not sure how many anatomy classes you missed in medical school, but re: the “scarless, soft, natural” breasts you’re offering – those are already standard equipment on all the Double X chromosome models. Just thought you should know…)  

Burning Pony Party Question du Jour – forget that time’s running out on the annual epidemic of madness, honoring the holy trinity of Visa, MasterCard and American Express, during which otherwise sane people part with way, WAY more money than they should and spend the next eleven months looking for a country that has no extradition treaty with the U.S. regarding consumer debt.  

Let’s get right to the good stuff – New Year’s Eve, baby! This entire year has pretty much sucked big time. Just like many of those before it. So how about something different? Something – hmm, what’s that word? Starts with an “FU”-no, not that one, the one you never hear anymore. Oh, yeah, FUN!

You know you want it! Even if you can’t remember what it feels like to laissez les bon temps roulez! So let’s get busy, party people. Let’s put aside our pathetic pleas for justice and begging for an end to torture and wiretaps. Take a deeeeeeeep breath, and exhale. Good! Now visualize the Republicans (and a pretty good chunk of Democrats) where they belong — featured on “America’s Most Wanted: Multiple Felonies with No Plea Bargains Allowed Special Edition”! Feel the tension fall away as your jaw finally unclenches and your hair stops standing on end. Very nice!

Now let’s keep it going by indulging in a little fantasy: If you could spend New Year’s Eve partying — guilt-free, with no regrets and no need to hire a good defense attorney afterward — with anyone on the planet, who would be the lucky person?

Giddyup! And remember: Do not rec the Pony Party (Seriously, you were going to rec this??? How drunk are you? Give me the car keys right now, okay?) Just divulge your innermost fantasies for December 31 and begone with you, while I snicker over your choices stand in awe of your outstanding taste. The critically acclaimed Front Page awaits, with late-breaking news, insightful analysis and actual substance, none of which you’re in danger of finding here

Ok, so it’s one week until Christmas.  I think if I were to cave to my mood right now, give in and throw up like I want to, all that would come out would be sparkly ribbons with a snowflake motif (cause I DID eat quite a lot of snow last week).

Acting Christmassy is one of the many ways that I pretend everything is OK so that everyone who’s so worried about me will leave me alone.  Before you start worrying about me…there ARE people who I trust and who know better than to try to ‘fix’ everything for me who I can turn to when I need….I just like to keep a lot of the other ‘supporting characters’ in my life at arm’s length.  They’re well-meaning people who just don’t listen….how’s that for overly simplifying the entire matter??…  😉  ok…digress…NOW…

So, in order to maintain the illusion, I dutifully participate in all of the Christmas crap as before, though for the life of me I can’t remember an actual Christmas I’ve enjoyed.  I love picking out gifts for people….I love the idea of Christmas….I just happen to have one of those families that it’s a miracle haven’t been featured in one of those dark comedy movies I love so much…or on Dr. Phil…  😉

So, in the spirit of giving, I offer you one of my all-time favorite songs.  It was written by the members of Toad the Wet Sprocket, but there isn’t a YouTube video of their version.  So, here’s a cover by some random dude who needs to stick to the melody a little more…..just sayin’…  😉

We’ve all heard them at this time of year. Repeatedly. So frequently that we want to pull out our hair. Or strangle random people in the mall. Or maybe that’s just because that person was walking soooo slowly, kept stopping dead in their tracks and would weave, so that I couldn’t get around him/her. God, I hate malls at this time of the year. (Anytime, truth be told).

But I digress. We’re assembled here today to discuss the mighty ear worm of horrible holiday music. Not the Chanukah song – that’s a classic. No, I’m talking more like the über-insipid Feed the World, by Band Aid. First, what a stupid name for band, even if they claimed their proceeds would go to charity. And this is coming from someone who likes puns. Second, “do they know it’s Christmas time?” Probably not, because the people they’re talking about are probably not Christian. Gah!

So what holiday songs do you truly despise?

Cross-posted at GOS.

Last week, my Pony Party covered the unsavory topic of Worst Meals Ever. Kossacks shared their horror stories which made my experiences pale by comparison: from something that resembled shaved, boiled hamster to turkey testicles and slugs in hot chili garlic sauce, I was repeatedly amazed by how many dreadful food experiences we’ve had.

These memories clearly continue to make us shudder with revulsion. But, I thought, we must also have memories of some stellar meals; I was not alone in this belief. So, join me on the flip side for a synopsis of some of my favorite meals.

That’s Righteous

Righteous Brothers:  You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’

Nina Simone

Mississippi Goddamn

Together

The Youngbloods:  Get Together

Although I would never describe myself as a gourmet cook, if you gave me a choice between spending all day in the kitchen and spending all day doing housework, the kitchen wins. I am picky about my pots,pans,knives and other cooking type attire.

One of my favorite ways to cook meat/poultry/pork and some kinds of fish, is the sear/roast method. I don’t know how well it translates to the vegans among us. Here is a good overview.

I use a cast iron or one of my French style steel fry pans. I heat until it sizzles enough to bounce water just a touch then take an evenly shaped cut of beef/pork/poultry/fish and cook it a few minutes each side. The kind of pan is critical because you won’t get a good browning with any kind of non stick pan. The it goes in the oven on a high temp between 400-500 depending on your oven. I generally make some kind of sauce and incorporate the brown bits from the searing. I like a wine/mushroom sauce for beef, a tomato olive concoction for chicken, a booze/fruit combo for pork ( don’t mix sweet fruit with sweet booze too overpowering) and so on… My rule with a sauce is use what you like. It is done quickly. I usually so a quick boil on green beans, give them a cold water shock, and then sauté them. People tend to think that cooking is too time consuming and all it takes is having some stock items that you use all the time.

A few other hints…

Experiment on hungry people, they are more appreciative…

Always have a few bottles of wine on hand in case things don’t go according to plan…

No kitchen is complete without a cast iron pan….

Gentlemen: Women LOVE a man who cooks for them… you are instantly transformed into Brad Pitt even if you don’t really resemble him.

Well, thanks for looking. Hang out and chit chat but don’t rec pony party. Please have a look at the great offerings on our recent and rec’d list. Participation equals democracy.

Do overs have never worked well for either my personal life or my film viewing life. The same crap that came up when I was young, immature, and rash resurfaced when I have tried do overs in romance and friendship later on in life. It was probably all my fault to begin with.

I can make an exception with music, not every cover I have ever heard was bad.

In my world, there is no disputing that the original Razor’s Edge was better than the Bill Murray version. In fact if I was single and dating and a fellow dared to challenge that notion, well that would be a deal breaker. Why oh why did Gus van Sant remake Psycho? Sure it was a daring enterprise and it took guts, but trench warfare took bravery and eventually they realized it was also stupid. Now, I must say the second Mutiny on the Bounty was great.

Nothing against Will Smith but messing with Omega Man is  just like inviting demonic trolls to a picnic. The Omega Man is one of two great Charlton Heston Sci Fi movies of the 1970’s, the other being Soylent Green and now I am fraught with worry some well meaning fool will try and a do over on that one. The Omega Man featured bad 1970’s special effects, an inter-racial romance with Rosalind Cash, zombies who hated technology with a charismatic leader ( sounds like the Christian right) and a weird ending in which Chuck gets a do over on being Christ.

Couldn’t they have waited until he was gone? I have a  real affection for post apocalyptic and apocalyptic movies, bad B and C grade mysteries from the 40’s and 50’s and 1970’s disaster movies. I have a  real affection for post apocalyptic and apocalyptic movies, bad B and C grade mysteries from the 40’s and 50’s and 1970’s disaster movies. I was born in 1964 so the 1970’s nostalgia isn’t that hard to figure out. Sorry Chuck. Wasn’t keen on most of your politics, and you looked good in a shirt when you were young and you made one of my top ten favorite movies of all time…Touch of Evil.

Music….

Thanks for checking in. One more pony party after this. Hang out and chit chat but don’t rec pony party, go have a look at the excellent offering on our recent and rec’d list.

A few words about unicorns. Apparently one of the reasons unicorns remain in the mythical realm is that Noah forgot to put them on the ark. I prefer to think they swam away during the great flood, did some body surfing and ended up in another world. They still visit occasionally don’t you know. If Jesus can show up as an image in a pancake in Florida, then I maintain that unicorns are still lurking around. Think of them as angels for the non-Christian set.

One legend about unicorns suggests that a beautiful woman named Elly with a wounded heart was healed by the tears of a unicorn.

There are purportedly biblical references in translation that refer to a unicorn like creature who possessed great strength and agility.

Somehow the unicorn also became associated with chaste love and faithful marriage. Ultimately, we like to invest great qualities in mystical creatures as perhaps a foreshadow of the reality that humans have so many failings and we like to think something out there somewhere does possess all of our good/noble qualities. I have no idea.

I have no idea what this next song really has to do with unicorns but it is funny….

Planet Unicorn….. Hey…..

If that tickled you… here is more about Planet Unicorn.

Thanks for peeking. Two more pony parties to come with more absolutely no deeper meaning at all! Please don’t rec pony party, hang out chit chat and then go have a look at the excellent offerings on our recent and rec’d list.

gotta tell you. this is one of my all-time favorite movies of any kind. it is funny and sweet and the little girl, jess, with her stuffed nose and nasal “sand_ta” brings joy to my heart and tears to my eyes.

i love the way it was filmed. the sense of time and place. hardship. being little and how the power of believing makes you powerful.

and even if you never saw the movie and will now look for it, you can watch the spoiler vid.  because i’m pretty sure you’d expect the ending. but maybe not expect how it makes you feel.